At least this time, the University of Pennsylvania didn’t waste any time!

Police make multiple arrests as Penn students attempt to launch a new encampment

Penn students launched a new encampment at Fisher Bennett Hall around 8 p.m. Arrests were prompt as police descended on the building.

by Emily Bloch, Susan Snyder, and Michelle Myers | Friday, May 17, 2024 | 9:23 PM EDT | Updated: 10:53 PM EDT

Penn students launched a new, short-lived, pro-Palestinian encampment Friday night, leading to multiple arrests and additional protests spreading across campus.

The encampment inside the school’s Fisher-Bennett Hall came one week after Philadelphia and campus police disbanded one that had lasted a little more than two weeks and had led to 33 arrests.

Members of the Penn Gaza Solidarity Encampment announced the new installation at about 8 p.m. Within the hour, police could be seen closing in. By 9:20 p.m. there were reports from the scene that police had some people in custody. That’s when groups began to spill into nearby streets.

Encampment organizers said they had renamed Fisher-Bennett Hall the Refaat Alareer Hall during their takeover in honor of the late Palestinian poet and professor who was killed in an airstrike in Northern Gaza in December.

I’m pretty sure that Jewish students would see actually renaming the building for yet another Hamas sympathizer as anti-Semitism. And the deep-pockets donors to Penn, like Marc Rowan, Ronald Lauder, and Dick Wolf would cease being deep-pockets donors!

Let’s be honest here: these pro-Hamas protesters were trying to get arrested, thinking that such publicity helps them with weak minded people like state Representative Rick Krajewski.

As it happens, the first two words of the cited article were false.

Police took 19 into custody as demonstrators attempted to seize a Penn campus building Friday night

The brief encampment inside Fisher-Bennett Hall came one week after police disbanded another encampment. Seven remained in custody, including one for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

by Jeff Gammage and Susan Snyder | Saturday, May 18, 2024 | 12:26 PM EDT | Updated: 4:30 PM EDT

Nineteen pro-Palestinian protesters, including six University of Pennsylvania students, were taken into police custody on Friday night when they attempted to occupy a campus building, the school said Saturday.

It’s been a long time since I took calculus at the University of Kentucky, but if I’ve managed to do the math correctly, if six out of the nineteen arrested were UPenn students, that means that thirteen were not. And that raises the obvious question: who is paying for these professional agitators to organize these protests, demonstrations, and building take-overs?

Twelve were issued citations, for failure to disperse and failure to follow police commands, then later released. Seven remain in custody awaiting felony charges, including one for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

LOL! Will Philadelphia’s George Soros-sponsored, far-left, police-hating, and criminal-loving District Attorney, Larry Krasner, actually prosecute those felony charges?

Once Fisher-Bennett Hall was clear, the university said, Penn police found lock-picking tools and homemade metal shields fashioned from oil drums. Exit doors had been secured with zip-ties and barbed wire, and barricaded with metal chairs and desks. Windows were covered with newspaper and cardboard, and bicycle racks and metal chairs were found blocking outside entrances, the school said.

Barbed wire? Lock-picking tools? How many Penn students would have any idea how to use lock-picking tools?

This was clearly a planned criminal act, planned by people who already had experience in committing crimes.